DTN Early Word Grains         12/23 05:50
   Row-Crop Markets Face Limited Volume Ahead of Christmas Break

   March corn is up 1 cent per bushel, January soybeans are up 1 cent, March KC
wheat is up 1 cent, March Chicago wheat is up 3/4 cent, and MIAX March
Minneapolis wheat is down 0.0025 cents.

Mike McGinnis
DTN Contributing Analyst

   EARLY MORNING GLOBEX NET CHANGES: March corn is up 1 cent per bushel,
January soybeans are up 1 cent, March KC wheat is up 1 cent, March Chicago
wheat is up 3/4 cent, and MIAX March Minneapolis wheat is down 0.0025 cents.

   CME GLOBEX RECAP: On Monday, corn, soybean, and wheat prices closed higher
between 3-6 cents. Corn, soybean, and spring wheat basis were stronger on
Monday, while soft red winter wheat and hard red winter wheat basis were
steady. With the USDA closed on Wednesday and Friday, the export sales report
originally scheduled for Friday morning has been rescheduled for Tuesday at
7:30 a.m. CST, which will include data for the week ending December 11. Also,
at 7:30, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will release the delayed third-quarter
U.S. GDP report. Finally, at 2 p.m. CST, USDA will release its quarterly Hogs
and Pigs inventory report.

   OUTSIDE MARKETS: Previous closes on Monday showed the Dow Jones Industrial
Average up 227.79 at 48,362.68 and the S&P 500 up 43.99 at 6,878.49. The
10-Year Treasury yield ended at 4.169%. Early Tuesday, the March Dow Jones
Futures are up 29 points. European markets are higher with the spot futures of
London's FTSE 100 trading up 0.01%, spot futures of Germany's DAX are trading
up 0.06% and the spot futures of France's CAC 40 Index are down 0.17%. Asian
markets are higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index up 0.02% and China's Shanghai
Composite Index up 0.07%.